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Chile confronts quake with fortified buildings, alerts Honduran
activist kills
LUIS HENAO began implementing strict the horizontal jolts that an kilometers) north-northwest lawmaker for
EVA VERGARA construction codes similar earthquake inflicts. Build- of Santiago.
Associated Press to those used for highly seis- ing methods in many other The quake was 7.4 miles (12 official in
COQUIMBO, Chile (AP) — mic regions in the United developing countries can kilometers) below the sur- scandal
Parts of this port city were a States such as California, withstand gravity and wind face.
disaster zone Thursday after said Kishor Jaiswal, a civil but have limited resistance It lasted a nerve-shatter- FREDDY CUEVAS
an 8.3-magnitude quake engineer with the U.S. Geo- against very strong earth- ing three minutes, swayed Associated Press
hit off the coast, killing at TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
least 11 people and likely Fish market owners wait for help from the city to clean up what was once their restaurant after (AP) — An anti-corruption
causing billions in dam- an earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the coastal town of Coquimbo, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 17, activist in Honduras who
age. Overturned cars and 2015. Several coastal towns were flooded from small tsunami waves set off by late Wednesday’s also reportedly suffers from
splintered boats sat mud quake, which shook the Earth so strongly that rumbles were felt across South America. a mental illness confessed
next to furniture, toppled to stabbing to death a law-
adobe homes and fishing (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo) yer representing an official
nets tangled in trees. charged in the fraudulent
The most stunning thing logical Survey. quakes. buildings in the capital, sales of medicines to the
about Wednesday night’s Most buildings in urban ar- Wednesday’s quake struck Santiago, and prompting government, police said
earthquake, however, eas of Chile are designed just offshore in the Pacific authorities to issue a tsu- Thursday.
may be the relatively low to withstand both the ver- at 7:54 p.m. and was cen- nami warning for the coun- The crime may have in-
amount of havoc caused tical forces of gravity and tered about 141 miles (228 try’s entire Pacific coast. q volved a combination of
by such a powerful shake. mental illness and politi-
While the quake led more Argentina: cal motives, according to
than 1 million to evacu- statements by the suspect
ate coastal areas and Government outraged as court orders new election and police.
no doubt caused much National police spokesman
anxiety, seismologists said BUENOS AIRES, Argentina necessary. Dozens of ballot sue in presidential election. Leonel Sauceda said Thurs-
Chile’s heavy investment day that Rigoberto Andres
in structural reinforcement (AP) — A court has annulled boxes were burned and er- Opposition vice presiden- Paredes killed Eduardo
of buildings and constant Montes Manzano in the
refinement of its tsunami a gubernatorial election in rors were found in the vote tial candidate Gabriela stairwell of an office build-
alert system helped pre- ing where both worked.
vent what would have a stronghold of Argentina’s count that pro-government Michetti said Thursday the “Paredes confessed that
been a catastrophe in less he killed the lawyer Mon-
prepared nations. governing party, candidate Juan Manzur ruling was a turning point tes because he defended
“Chile has good codes corrupt people,” Sauceda
and good compliance, outraging officials of Presi- winning by 52 percent to because it “puts an end to said.
which together have re- He also said the 28-year-
duced the vulnerabilities dent Cristina Fernandez’s 40 percent over his nearest attempts at fraud in Argen- old Paredes claimed he
of their building stock over suffered from a mental ill-
the decades,” said Richard administration and giving a rival, Jose Cano. tina.” ness.
Olson, director of Florida Montes Manzano repre-
International University’s boost to opponents ahead It’s the first time a court has But the president’s Cabinet sented Congress vice pres-
Extreme Events Institute. “I ident Lena Gutierrez, who
would rather be there in of the Oct. 25 presidential thrown out a major election chief, Anibal Fernandez, is charged in a scheme to
one of their cities than in sell overpriced and in some
many other countries in an contest. in Argentina since a dicta- called the decision “a judi- cases defective medicines
earthquake.” to the government.
Living in one of the world’s A local court in Tucuman torship ended in 1983 and cial coup d’etat” and sug- The 44-year-old lawyer was
most seismically active leaving his office on the
places, the Andean na- province ruled Wednesday it gave a victory to opposi- gested the national gov- 15th floor of the building in
tion’s 17 million people Tegucigalpa on Wednes-
have little choice but be- that irregularities were so tion parties who have tried ernment might intervene day when a man stabbed
come experts in earth- him at least 15 times.
quakes. The strongest widespread in the Aug. 23 to make irregularities in the to take political control the Following his arrest, Pare-
earthquake ever recorded vote that new elections are local vote a campaign is- province. q des told reporters, “those
happened in Chile: a mag- people are making a
nitude-9.5 tremor in 1960 (mess) of this country, they
that killed more than 5,000 are making a (mess) of
people. peoples’ lives.”
After another major earth- He said he had friends who
quake in 1985, authorities lost family members in the
public health system.q
